Chapter 22 Taken
Lilac stared at the men absolutely fuming. She had no reason to return to Eric's mansion and did not see a reason why she should. Though she had clothes there, she was not so attached to them. But then again, she had jewelry. Jewelry she could sell.
"Let's go," Lilac finally answered and followed them towards a car and got in. The moment she sat inside, she phone rang. It was a number she recognized even in her sleep.
"Hello, Mrs Hart," Lilac answered coldly.
"Is that how you refer to your grandmother?" An elderly woman asked over the phone.
"I dare to claim that no one in the heart family is related to me. I even dare to demand a judge to force a DNA test to find out who is Hart and who is not," Lilac answered.
"So because you do not think you are family, you decide to betray your parents and sister?" The elderly woman asked.
"Betray?" Lilac almost laughed.
"Mrs Hart you are not stupid, at least I hope you are not. You should be aware that your prescious family does not like me and would destroy me if necessary. Are you calling because you feel I should stay put and comply? A good granddaughter would have let her family use her, frame her and destroy her if necessary, right?" Lilac asked and the woman on the other end went silent.
"At least you have the heart to not dare say yes. Well, Mrs Hart. Even after failing to destroy me, I have no family, no frineds and no home. I'd say I have repaid all I owe your family by now," Lilac said coldly.
"The lawyer has gotten your mother and father out. So, come home right now. Let us discuss the next moves. The media has already gotten wind of all this," the old lady said.
To this, Lilac chuckled.
"There are no next steps to discuss with people who would do anything to harm me. I will not be coming," Lilac said and ended the call. She threw her phone aside and closed her eyes. For some reason she felt uncomfortable.
She had barely closed her eyes when she fell into a dream.
The scenes were familiar. This was her first life after she had been caught on the boat by agents. Eric sent a lawyer who handled everything and sent her to the island to meet his family.
But something happened on the island. She saw images of herself being dragged by gun men and jumped awake.
Lilac's head hurt. So she did go to the island in her last life. Why did it seem like nothing much was changing? Was it because she had lost memories of her past life, so she was making t he same choices? No, in the dream she was still on the island today, but she had left last night.
Did this not mean things have changed? But what was that last image? It looked like she had been taken by gunmen. Lilac shivered. This was her greatest test yet.
"But I am no longer in the Island so it will be different, right?" Lilac muttered to herself. Her words barely laned when a large SUV slammed into the car she was in.
The impact pushed the car off the road as the Driver tried to regain control.
"Get down ma'am," a guard shouted before a barage of gunshots suddenly filled the air.
It took Lilac half a minute to realize they were under attack. No! She was under attack. A peircing pain tore through her as she lowered her head. She barely registered the guards voice as her ears rang.
"Ma'am we will..." The guard spoke again then stopped abruptly.
When she looked up, the guard had a trail of blood spilling from the corner of his mouth. He was not moving, nor was the driver. Lilac looked out the window to see that the gunmen were masked and dressed in the same attire like her dream.
"No!" She felt a rush of fear as she seemed to recall being tortured but them. Lilac opened the side door and bolted into a small street.
It was a hot noon day, yet the street was empty. Lilac could guess that everyone had running from the gunshots.
She turned a corner and kept running, all the while looking for where to hide. But just as she was about to turn another corner, she colided with the but of a machine gun that he a gunmen had slamed into her head.
In one swift motion, they grabbed her by the arms and dragged her towards a blacked out vehicle.
Lilac recovered to find she was being dragged away, her knees were wrapped and she could tell that she had lost a shoe from the pain of her toes getting skinned from being dragged.
Like th dream, nothing had changed? Panjc filled lilac as she was thrown into the Blacked out SUV. Why was she still being taken again? She had left the island! Why did the abduction still happen?
Lilac was quickly knocked unconscious. When she woke up, she was in a familiar dingy cell room. The floor was wet and the iron bars were rusted. Lilac looked around the room.
For some reason, she knew what was about to happen. The next moment, a man walked in with a group of masked men. Unlike the rest, he was not masked.
"Mrs Black. Welcome. As long as your husband complies, you will be out of here in no time," he said and his men immediately dragged Lilac out of her cell.
Lilac instinctly knew where he was taking her. Fear filled her as she tried to walk despite their rough actions.
They pulled her to a door and opened it. The moment Lilac set eyes on the familiar chair, she went into a full panic and thrashed wildly, trying to escape.
Seein this, the man chuckled.
"It seems Mrs Black knows what is about to happen," he said.